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Iris (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Iris was a swift messenger goddess in Greek mythology and a popular subject for vase painting, but better known as the goddess of the rainbow because Hermes (Mercury) is known as the messenger god.
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Learn the Greek goddess Iris in mythology and art, with recommended books and resources ... ); role | goddess of the rainbow; symbols | kerykeion, winged boots ; Iris in Greek Mythology; Iris was the goddess of the rainbow in Greek mythology. According to Hesiod's Theogony, Iris was the daughter of an Oceanid named Electra...
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The history and legend of the iris and the fleur-de-lis ... Among the duties of the Greek Goddess Iris was that of leading the souls of dead women to the Elysian Fields. In token of that faith the Greeks planted purple Iris on the graves of women. Iris was the messenger of the gods and the personification of the Rainbow.
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Information on Iris, the Greek Goddess of the Rainbow ... Rainbow-goddess. Hera's winged messenger. Daughter of Thaumas(son of Pontus and Gaia) and Electra(Oceanid). Mother of, some say, Eros, She never objected when Zeus, wishing to conceal his affair with Aphrodite, claimed that Eros was not their child, but in fact Iris's.
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